ESTECO is proud to sponsor the Hyperloop Makers team from the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia in the Elon Musk SpaceX International Challenge.
The team had already won the Top Design Concept and Technical Excellence awards in the first round of the competition, which aims at perfecting the revolutionary land transport system driven by compressed air, capable of arriving from Los Angeles to San Francisco (600km) in just 30 minutes.
For their winning project, the Hyperloop Makers UPV used the ESTECO modeFRONTIER optimization platform to select the best design in terms of travel experience, while maximizing energy efficiency and accelerating the development time. Satisfied with the experience, they will continue using ESTECO technology in the second round of the competition. ESTECO will provide the team with the free ESTECO Academy membership, which will enable them to take advantage of state-of-the-art engineering software.
“modeFRONTIER allowed us to obtain a family of optimum solutions for a range of inputs in a mere fraction of the time that would be necessary with a traditional approach,” said Germán Torres, the technical director of the Hyperloop Makers UPV team. "We are now developing a small levitation demonstrator for the next phase of the SpaceX international challenge and we plan to use modeFRONTIER to optimize our new Hyperloop design proposal", Torres concluded.
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